By Michael Berenbaum
Eli Pfefferkorn was sent to a concentration camp and lived to tell about it, albeit 65 years later. He sheds light on how real human beings lived and died amid the horror.
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By Michael Berenbaum
Hyman Bookbinder was an institution in Washington D.C. With a gift for compromise, the AJC leader built support for civil rights and Israel.
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By Michael Berenbaum and Jeanette Friedman
Marilyn Henry was the quintessential old-school girl reporter — more Hildy Johnson in “His Girl Friday” than Brenda Starr. Her laser-sharp brain could cut through the most complex philosophical, financial, legal, religious and arcane data to get to the heart of a story.
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By Michael Berenbaum
The number of visitors to Auschwitz is growing by the year, even as the memory of the events that transpired there grows increasingly distant. These are among the reasons that the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has decided to revamp its exhibitions for the 21st century.
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By Michael Berenbaum
I am not presently a New Yorker — though as one who was raised in New York it pains me to say so — but I am a student of history, so I must address two issues that have come up in the debate over the proposed Park51 Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero.Read More
